--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote: > > How could Obama be up on all the agencies such that this > issue would have be spotlit? All the agencies are infested > with industrial goons and all the by-laws are written by > them, and they ignore them anyway!! Coal, nuclear, gas, > oil, food, commodities, forests, EPA, and on and on. Best > I could have hoped for him to do would have been to get > some non-goonies in the Oval Office and appoint them to > scour their various venues for any sort of hankypanky
Yes, they're called cabinet secretaries. Ken Salazar is Interior Secretary; the MMS is an agency of his department. There was quite a bit of squawking when he was nominated because of his ties to the industries his department supervises and regulates. From the NYTimes shortly after his nomination: "Daniel R. Patterson, formerly an official of the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management and now southwest regional director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an advocacy group, said that Mr. Salazar has justifiably become the most controversial of Mr. Obama's cabinet appointees. "'Salazar has a disturbingly weak conservation record, particularly on energy development, global warming, endangered wildlife and protecting scientific integrity,' said Mr. Patterson....'It's no surprise oil and gas, mining, agribusiness and other polluting industries that have dominated Interior are supporting rancher Salazar he's their friend.'" Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/us/politics/18salazarcnd.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&hp http://tinyurl.com/2f8kz4l
